OBSERVATIONS
Class 1 (To Sir With Love)
INTASC6. Communication and Technology-The teacher uses knowledge of effective verbal, nonverbal, and media communication techniques to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom.

  • teacher is an obvious outsider at new school
  • sarcasm doesn't work (kids feel the ouch)
  • sarcasm decreases participation
  • black teacher-white school (prejudice)

Power Teaching with Biffle/Video Observations

INTASC2. Student Development-The teacher understands how children learn and develop, and can provide learning opportunities that support a child's intellectual, social, and personal development.

Lesson 1:
  • gaining student attention
  • call and response

Lesson 2:
  • the five classroom rules
  • accompanied with particular gestures
  • increasing student engagement

Lesson 3:
  • rules, learning, and performing should be fun
  • energetic vocals promote active engagement
  • scoreboard concept

Lesson 4:
  • cue and prompt
  • Rule #2-difficulty with the raising of hands
  • calling out Rule #2 as a refocusing technique for the class

Lesson 5:
  • Rule #3 rehearsal
  • call and response
  • breaking of the rule as a form of practice/empowerment for students
  • scoreboard as reward system
  • class as team/teacher as cheerleader
  • teacher empowerment

INTASC5. Motivation and Management-The teacher uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.

Lesson 6:
  • Rule #4: make smart choices
  • very different from other rules
  • inside/outside classroom activities
  • moral reasoning
  • behavior modification
  • "safety first"
  • question generation to promote better decision making
Lesson 7:
  • Rule #5: keep your dear teacher happy (no argument rule)
  • getting out of back and forths
  • use of sarcasm here
  • power struggles are not good
  • dealing with challenging students who are looking for loopholes in the rules
Lesson 8:
  • Basics of Power Teaching
  • "class-yes" as attention gainer
  • review of 5 classroom rules
  • interlocking of ideas promotes the spread of Power Teaching
  • "practice, practice, practice"
  • teacher as facillitator
  • importance of repetition

Constructivist Conversations: September 23rd
Socratic Dialogue/Small Group Discussion
  • initiate dialogue
  • piggyback on ideas of others
  • agree/disagree
  • adding ideas
  • encouraging others
  • use of humor

Incorporation of ideas/strategies of peers into Personal Repetoire

Stephanie
  • sincerity
  • tranquility
  • even-paced tempo
  • thorough
Wayne
  • humor/wit
  • casual/at-ease
  • great presence
  • cross-curiculum ideology
  • INTD integration
  • opens with a question
  • use of facial expressions

BLOOM'S TAXONOMY OBSERVATIONS

INTASC6. Communication and Technology-The teacher uses knowledge of effective verbal, nonverbal, and media communication techniques to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom.

Observation #1

Use of verbal forms: applied focus on meaning, long-term memory skills, attitude, and knowledge
  • remembering/recalling of information
  • understanding and explanation of information
  • applying knowledge/use of new information
  • analyzing/differentiation of information
  • evaluating/passing judgement
  • creating/making new things/new concepts
  • surface learning vs.deep learning
  • surface: facts, rote learning, and short-term memory
  • deep: meaning, understanding, and long-term memory

Observation #2
Learning/Assessment
  • 3 Domains: Cognitive (thinking), Affective (feeling), Psychomotor (physical)
  • 6 Domains of the Cognitive: evaluation, synthesis, analysis, application, comprehension, and knowlege
  • Foundational levels of comprehension and knowledge are very important
  • evaluation vs. creation

Observation #3

Sectional Learning
  • Division of learning into visual sections
  • BDAY Cake Analogy: hierarchical levels of learning
  • Creation as the apex/remembering as the base

Observation #4
Vella's 12 Principles of Effective Teaching
  • needs assessment
  • safety first
  • inclusivity/trust/sound relationships
  • sequencing/reinforcement
  • PRAXIS: theory and practice
  • respect
  • ideas/feelings/actions
  • immediacy
  • clear roles
  • teamwork
  • engagement
  • accountability